This issue pursues a single question: amid the historical crisis of capital’s overall reproduction, how can the struggle for life and resistance to war contribute to the development of independent working-class politics? The articles share a commitment to reconstructing communist politics within living struggles and with an internationalist horizon.
“From Schools to Ports” sets out communist politics against both a left trapped in rivalry between capitalist factions and a doctrinalism that justifies withdrawal from struggle: intervening in the movement’s dynamics, learning from its initiatives and linking struggles over everyday life to proletarian internationalism.
“War against Life” examines war and negotiation within power rivalries and disruptions to capital’s reproduction. Opposition to US and Israeli aggression goes together with independence from the Islamic Republic and every capitalist bloc.
“Democracy on the Ruins” connects capital’s command in the workplace with the legal mechanisms that organise war, shifting the question of emancipation from choosing rulers to the producers’ own power.
“Introducing the Manifesto” brings together capital’s historical crisis, the historical rupture in communism and the need to reconstruct knowledge and organisation within the workers’ movement: a document for developing politics, rather than announcing a new group.
“Reconstructing Internationalism — Part Eight” distinguishes organisations’ survival from the reproduction of communism within the movement. It locates the problem in renewing the connection between experience, science, programme and political organisation across struggles and generations.